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Birth of a Breed

by | Sep 4, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

The Paterson revolver breaks the trail for future legendary Colts.
The day before the fall of the Alamo, in which Santa Anna and his soldiers crushed the rebellion in Texas, Samuel Colt formed the Patent Arms Mfg. Co. in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 5, 1836. In fact, the same day Santa Anna’s forces launched their attack on the Alamo, on February 25, 1836, was also the day Colt’s American patent was granted. Just like


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